Candelabrum.



. PATENTEDDEG. 18, 1906.

A. C. GUNTZER. VCANDBLABRUM.

APPLIOATLON FILED MAB. a, 190e.'

PATENTED DEG. 18, 1906.

A. C. GUNTZER. GANDELABRUM.

APPLICATION FILED MAB. s, 190e.

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ANTHONY CHARLES GUNTZER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CANDELABRUIVI.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 18, 1906.

Application tiled March 3, 1606. Serial No. 304.071.

New York, have invented a new and lmproved Candelabrum, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a candelabrum wherein the body portion is in the form of a cross revolubly mounted upon an adjustable standard and to provide the said standard with removable legs at its base and also to provide simple and readilyapplied locking devices for the legs.

Another purpose of the invention is to construct the cross forming the body in sections readily removable, and which when assembled will not show their points of connection at the front, and to provide means for securing the sections firmly in place, which means can be quickly and conveniently applied and are not visible at the front of the body.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide the body with series of tapering sockets, and the candle-holders, and the corpus and scroll, if they are used, with tapering shanks adapted to enter and have frictional engagement with the inner walls of the sockets, enabling said parts to be quickly and firmly placed in position or removed and the various factors to be interchangeably employed.

Another purpose of the invention is not only to provide an adjustable standard for the body, but also to construct the standard in detachable sections, enabling such a number of parts forming the candelabrum to be separated one from the other, so that said parts can be placed in a comparatively small box for transportation.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the .several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar. characters of reference indicate correspondingy parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is front elevation ofthe im#l proved candelabrum. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the body of the candelabrum and a side elevation of portion of the standard. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through a portion of the body of the candelabrum and parts carried thereby, the section being taken at a central point, and a sectional side elevation of a portion of the standard. Fig. 4 is an enlarged rear view of those portions of the members of the body which connect, the fastening devices for such parts being removed. Fig. 5 is a vertical section through the lower portion of the standard and a side elevation of one of the legs,.illustrating the manner in which the legs are attached to the standard. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section taken practically on the line 6 6 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a transverse section through one of the arms of the body, the section being taken adjacent to the outer end of the arm; and Fig. 8 is a rear elevation of an arm of the body at its outer end portion, a part being in section, the said view also showing a rear elevation of an ornament for the arm and the manner in which the ornament is applied thereto.

The improved candelabrum may be said to consist, primarily, of a body-section A, a standard B for the body-section, and legs O for the standard. the form of a passionecross, as is illustrated The body-section A is in in Figs. 1 and 2, and is constructed of any suitable material and in three separatable sections-namely, a transverse section a. and upper and lower longitudinal sections a and a2. Each section of the body at its side edge is provided with a rearwardly-extending flange 10, and each flange 10 has a projection 11 uponits inner face at its rear edge. In each projection 11 a longitudinal groove 12 is produced, as shown in Figs. 3 and 7 so that the sections of the body A may be given a box formation, when it is desired, by sliding back plates (not shown) in the grooves 12 of the sections, thus producing a chamber in which electric Wires may be laid and concealed when the candelabrum is to be lighted by electricity. The ornaments 13 at the outer ends of the arms or sections of the cross-body are removably connected therewith, as shown in Figs. 7 and S, by attaching pins 14 to the ornaments, which pins are slid into the spaces between the back of the arms or sections of the body and the projections 11 from their flanges 10, as is particularly shown in Fig. 7.

At the central portion of the transverse section d of the body A an opening 15 is made in the upper flange 10 of said section, and a registering opening 16 is produced in the lower flange, as is shown in Fig. 3. Athreaded bolt 17 is passed rearwardly through the center of the said section c between the'open- IOO ings 15 and 16, as is also shown in Fig. 3. The head of this bolt, which appears at the front of the said body-section, maybe either plain or ornamental.

The upper longitudinal section or member a of the body A is provided at its lower end with a flat lip 18, (shown in Figs. 3 and 4,) which lip 18 is usually convex at its lower end and is of suflicient size to slip readily into and through the opening 15 in the transverse member a of said body. In the lower edge of the lip 18 a recess 18rjL is made, which receives a portion of the bolt 17, and an aperture 18h is made in the lip 18 at a point above the recess 18a. The lower longitudinal member a2 of the cross-body is also provided with a flat lip 19, adapted to enter and pass through the lower opening 16 in the central member a, as is likewise shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The upper edge of the lip 19 is prei'- erably convex, and in the said convex edge arecess 19a is produced, adapted to receive the lower portion of the said. bolt 1.7. An aperture 1. 9b is made in the lip 19 at a point below the recess 19a, the apertures 18b and 19b being in vertical alineinent with each other and with the bolt when the lips 18 and 19 have been introduced into the transverse member a of the cross-body. When the lips 18 and 19 have been introduced into the member a to their full extent, the ends of the flanges 10 on the upper and lower members a and a2 abut smoothly and almost imperceptibly against the flanges on the transverse member a, as is indicated at the uipper portion of Fig. 4.

The members of the cross-body are held in their assembled position by means of a washer 20, apertured to receive the threaded portion of the bolt or pin 17, which washer is provided with lugs 21, so placed that said lugs will enter the apertures 1.8b .and 1.9b of the lips 18 and 19, as is shown in Fig. 3, and then a thumb-nut 22 or its equivalent is screwed. upon the threaded end of' the bolt 17 to a firm bearing against. the said washer 20, as is also shown in Fig. 3.

A post 23 is attached to or formed integral with the under surface of the upper portion of the lower member a2 of the cross-body at a point centrally between its sides. The said post is vertical; but the body has an inclination with respect to said post, the inclination of the body being from the top downward and outward. Tnliact, the inclinationl of the body toward the perpendicular post 23 is more or less acute, as is clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The said post 23 has a reduced lower end portion 24, thus producing a shoulder 25. The post 23 is circular in cross-section, and its reduced end 24." is made to loosely enter a socket 26, formed in the upper end of the upper section l) of the standard B, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3, the shoulder 25 of the post engaging with the upper end surface of the said section l). Thus it will be observed that the body A can be readily lifted from engagement with the standard B` and can be turned thereon, as desired.

A number of tubes 27 are either formed integral with the members of the cross-body A or are attached thereto but the tubes extend above and below the upper and lower Jfaces of said members, as is clearly indicated in Fig. 3. Said tubes are open at the top and bottom, and the bores of the tubes are tapering, being narrowest at their lower ends, as is also shown in Fig. 3. These tubes 27 constitute a series of sockets and are placed in a vertical position-that is, parallel with the standard B-but extend upwardly at an angle to the liront race of the said. cross-body, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. T hese sockets are preferably thirteen in number, although any desired number may be employed, and they are arranged one above the other on the longitudinal members o and a2 of the crossbody and side by side on the transverse member a.

The socket-tubes 27 are adapted to receive candle-holders D or are adapted to hold in position a corpus D and likewise a scroll D2 when these two are employed., To such end the candle-holdem are provided with tapering shanks 28, adapted to lit into the sockettubes 27 in close irictional engagement therewith, as is shown in Fig. 3. The scroll D2 is provided with similar shanks adapted to enter two adjacent socket-tubes 27, as is indicated in Fig. 1, while the corpus D has a shank 29 extending Afrom the bottom central portion of the image and ol' the same character as the shank 28 of a candle holder or cup, and when the'sh ank 29, extending from the corpus D, enters a socket-tube 27, as is shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the body portion of the image covers one oi the socket-tubes and the feet rest upon another socket-tube. The socket-tube upon which the feet of the image rest is concealed by a housing ,30, attached to the Jfoot-section ot the image. When a corpus is employed, a holy-water font 31 is-likewise used, which is also provided with a tapering shank. Then this holy-water font is employed, its shank is made to enter the last or lowest socket-tube 27 of the body, as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. When said corpus is used, it is placed upon the upper portion of the lower member o2 of the body, the arms of the corpus extending up and resting against the transverse member (L, and the scroll D2 is located over the head ot the corpus, its tapering shanks being made to enter the sockettubes 27 at each side of the center of said member, is shown in Fig. 1. Two candle holders or cups are located at each side or the ligure on the said transverse member a. Two candle holders or cups are likewise located on the upper longitudinal memberv a IOO of the body, while below the image or 'ligure the shank of a single candle-holder and that of the holy-water font 31 are made to enter the lowermost socket-tubes 27 on the lower member a2. Then the corpus, the scroll, and the holy-water font are not employed, each socket-tube Z7 is utilized to support a candle holder or cup.

The standard B comprises an upper member b, a, second lower member b, a third lower member b, and abase member b4. In the construction of these members the upper member l) is preferably of the smallest diameter, and the lower or base member b is of the greatest diameter.

As is illustrated in Fig. 3, the lower member b enters and has sliding movement in the next lower member Z22, and the downward movement of the member i) is regulated by placing a collar 32 on said member at a suitable point for engagement with the upper end of the member b2 when the body is at its lowest point. Then the body is to be raised, the upper member is carried upward a suitable distance and is held in adjusted position by set-screw 33, passed through the member b2 to an engagement with the extension-section b of the member l).

The member b2 at its lower end is screwed into the upper end of the next lowest member b3, as is shown at 34 in Fig. 5, and the lower end of the said member b3 is screwed into the upper end of the base member b4, as is shown at 35 in the same figure.

As will be observed 'from Figs. l and 5,.the base member b4 is hexagonal in cross-section and is provided with a bottom 36, having a threaded opening centrally produced therein, and a plat-e 37 is made to engage with the bottom portion of the base member b4, said plate being provided with a central plain opening 38, through which the threaded end of a thumb-bolt 3Q or its equivalent is passed into the threaded opening in the bottom 36 of the base. By tightening up the bolt 39 the plate 37 is held rigidly against the bottom of the base member b4 of the said standard B.

The base member b* is provided in alternate panels with upper and lower apertures 37a, (shown in Figs. 5 and 6,) and the plate 37 is provided with downwardly and outwardly extending arms 40, three in number. The outer ends of the said arms are perferably horizontal, and the horizontal portions of the arms have apertures 41 made therein. lVhcn the plate 37 is properly 'fastened upon the basel member l# of the standard B, an arm 4() will be opposite cach apertured panel of the said base-section, as is clearly shown in Fig. 6.

The legs C for the standard are three in number and may be of any desired shape or configuration; but each leg at its lower portion is provided with a downwardly-extending pin 42, which enters an aperture 4l in an arm 40. Each leg at its inner vertical edge is provided, preferably, with three ilat bearing-plates 43, arranged usually at equal distances apart, which bearing-plates when the legs are in position engage 'firmly' and smoothly with the outer faces of the apertured panels of the said base member b4.

Pins 44 are made to extend upwardly and outwardly 'from the bearing-plates 43, and when the legs are placed in position to support the standard the pins 44 are made to 'enter the apertures 37UL of the base member b4, which apertures are given an upward inclination, as is indicated in Fig. 5. Thus when the plate 37 has been loosened the pins 44 of the legs arc passed into the apertures 37 in the said base member b4, and then the pins 42 at the bottom portion of the legs are made to enter the apertures'4l in the arms 40, extending from the plate 37, and when the bolt 39 is tightened it is obvious that the legs will be firmly held inl their set position and yet may be very quickly and conveniently removed therefrom.

The entire mechanism is of a simple character, and the parts can be quickly assembled or quickly separated, and when separated the parts can be placed in a very small box and convenientlycarried. Furthermore, the body of the candelabrum may be adjusted to quite a height, if desired, and the standard is of such construction as to hold the body A securely in the position to which it is adjusted.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. ln a candelabrum, a cruciform body comprising a transverse member and upper and lower longitudinal members, detachable from each other, and a single fastening device for securing said members together, said members having socket-tubes extending through them, the bores of which tubes are conical, being of least diameter at-their bottom ends.

2. In a candelabrum, a cruciform body comprising a transverse member and upper and lower longitudinal members, detachable from each other, means for locking the said members together, a standard constructed in adjustable and separable members, a vertical post connected with the under surface of the lower longitudinal member of the body at the upper portion thereof, the said post engaging the upper member of the standard for revolubly supporting the body upon the standard, the said body being at an angle to the post, a series of socket-tubes extending through the said body at an angle thereto being in a vertical position when the body is in place on the standard, and objects provided with Shanks for engaging the said Socket-tubes.

3. In a candelabrum, a cruciform body comprising a transverse member and upper and lower longitudinal members detachable from each other, a fastening de vice for all of the members, the said fastening device being carried by the transverse member and arranged for locking engagement with the upper and lower longitudinal members, sockettubes arranged in a single line one above the other on the longitudinal members of the body, and similar socket-tubes arranged side by side on the transverse member, the said tubes extending above and below the upper and lower faces of said members, and ha ving tapering bores smallest at the bottom, and objects adapted to be carried by the body and ha ving tapering shanls which enter said socket-tubes, and are held in place by frictional engagement therewith.

4. In a candelabrum, a crueiform body comprising a transverse member and upper and lower longitudinal members, the transverse member being provided with upper and lower openings at its back portion, lips extending from the inner ends of the upper and lower longitudinal members, which lips respectively enter the said upper and lower openings in the transverse member, and locking de vices at the rear of the transverse member, in looking engagement with it and the lips of the upper and lower longitudinal members.

5. In a candelabrum, a crucifcrm body comprising a transverse member and an upper and a lower longitudinal member, each member being provided with rearwardly-extending flanges at its side edges, the transverse member being also provided with centrally-located openings in its upper and its lower flanges, and the upper and the lower longitudinal members being provided with lips adapted to enter the said openings in the transverse member of the body, a bolt passed through the transverse member from. the front between the openings therein to an engagement with the walls of recesses produced in the opposing ends of the said lips, each of the lips being pro vided with an aperture in vertical alinement with its recess, a washer having an opening to receive thethreaded portion of the bolt and having also pins which enter the apertures in the lips, and a nut which is screwed upon the said bolt to an engagement with the said washer.

6. In a candelabrum, a cruciform body consisting of a transverse member, upper and lower longitudinal members removably connected 'with the transverse member, locking devices for the said members, located at the rear of the body, a rearwardly-extending ssaeie pins adapted to be slid into the spaces be- I tween the rear of the said members and the projecting portions of their anges.

7. In a candelabrum, a cruciform body the members whereof are provided with rearwardly-extending side flanges having inwardly-extending horizontal projections at their rear ends, ornaments for the outer end portions of the members, pins carried by the said ornaments, which pins enter the spaces between the rear faces of the members and the projections from their anges, and sockettubes ha ving tapering bores, which tubes are secured to the said body members in single lines, extending both above and below the said members.

8. In a candelabrum, a cruciform body and a standard upon which the said body is removably and revolubly mounted, the said standard being constructed in separable and adjustable sections, the base member of said standard being polygonal in cross-section, legs for supporting the standard, and means for detachably securing the legs to the base member of the standard, said means including projections on the legs adapted to engage openings in sundry of the side faces of said base member.

9. In a candelabrum, a body and a standardtherefor, the said standard being provided 'with a base polygonal in cross-section, sundry of the side faces of the said base having upwardly-inclined apertures therein, a plate located at the bottom of the said base, means for securing said plate to the bottom of the base, the plate being pro vided with arms extending outwardly therefrom, which arms have apertures therein, and legs corresponding in number to the number of arms on said.

plate, the said legs having pins which enter 

